17, the outgoing parliament speaker said on Sunday. The first session of Serbia’s new Parliament, which will be dominated by a student-led movement following its election triumph last month, will be held on Nov.
25 vote. Ana Brnabic scheduled the inaugural parliamentary meeting after Serbia’s election authorities last week declared the final results of the Oct.
The remaining seats go to the parties of ethnic minorities in Serbia. The students led two years of street protests before they toppled strongman Aleksandar Vucic in the election. The Students’ List election candidates included mostly professors, teachers and various other experts in their fields but with hardly any political experience, who will now take up parliamentary seats. Serbia also must hold an early presidential election by the end of the year after Vucic resigned the post on Sept. Though the election winners have yet to take office, the change in the balance of power has led to a series of detentions relating to cases of suspected election fraud, attacks on student protesters and corruption. The party has faced accusations of corruption and cronyism and of organised crime links, which it has denied.
The Students’ List won 140 seats in the 250-member assembly while the Serbian Progressive Party won 103, according to those results. Protests erupted in response to a train station canopy collapse that killed 16 people in the country’s north in November 2024, which many in Serbia blamed on corruption in state infrastructure projects. 27 in a failed attempt to become the next prime minister. The SNS party had ruled the country almost unchallenged for 14 years, controlling all layers of power and state institutions.
The group promised to restore the rule of law and terminate corruption that they said flourished under Vucic. Vucic has accused his opponents of a “revolutionary terror,” though his right-wing party is still in charge.
